Software company Data Sift said Tuesday that it has secured $42 million in funding – triple the amount the company raised last year – for a total of $70 million to date. Data Sift’s announcement follows news on Monday that competitor Topsy has been acquired by Apple for more than $200 million.

Both Data Sift and Topsy are brokers in a complex economy that has sprung up around Twitter’s data.

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